MetaCosm

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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Thanks for the link to Gocraft, cool stuff.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
You misunderstand. There is no optimizing, he built a non-idiomatic library that people love. It has pros and cons -- he is going to maintain it. There is no "fixing" it -- what makes people love it is it being NON-IDIOMATIC. A
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
It is really excellent if you will actually use the pen. I love pen input (I have a Note III and a Surface 2). I love using Hyper-V -- which seems much faster than VirtualBox (on Windows). I went through like 7 devices prior to sticking w
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
So, motorcycles -- specifically the fast and light ones... they have the same field of view, they have similar seating, and they are "far more invested in avoiding collisions" -- they are significantly less massive and travel at m
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Since I am hardly ever a pedestrian, I really didn't give consideration to what a horror the lack of standard behavior of bikes would be for people on foot. You have literally been collided with by a guy on a bike?
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Also, filtering (lane splitting, white lining, etc) is often ticketed as reckless or some peer of it (on a motorcycle). While it often doesn't have its own designation -- if you are caught, you go home with a HELL of a ticket.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
DC - 2004 (when I was deeply involved in statistics for DC, crime and otherwise) cyclists where found at fault for the majority (only slightly) of accidents they where involved in: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions&#x2F
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Wow, that is damning for RTOR. Makes intuitive sense, but damn.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
> However, in traffic scenarios, I tend to fairly studiously adhere to the rules of the road. Why? Predictability... As a driver, THANK YOU! This is the #1 problem with bicyclists, predictability. I drive in DC and I have literally NO
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Your underlying assumption (which is unfounded as it turns out) is that drivers are (you imply always, maybe you meant majority... both are wrong) at fault. Bicyclists are often found as the CAUSE of accidents due to erratic (and illegal)
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
1. It isn't a "limitation" of bicycles -- it is "inconvenient". They don't WANT to come to a full stop because it is annoying -- it is annoying for me too, I still do it. 2. Absolutely, this is a HUGE part of
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
I regularly ride my motorcycle, and drive my car in DC. I am terrified of cyclists because their behavior follows NO norms. Some follow traffic signals, some don't. Some ride in the center of lane, some ride the edge of the rode, so
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Yep. Give me something built on msys anyday.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
That isn't really true, and a lot of adults learn this if they got into trouble as kids. The juvenile system has a bent towards privacy, but that is all it is -- a bent. You can either have your juvenile record "sealed" or &
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
.doc(x) != word. For example, I really like http://www.abisource.com/ on desktops. Having the ability to open .doc(x) files IS standard, Microsoft Word is not. Lucky we got OpenOffice, LibreOffice, AbiSource and tons of o
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
They made the process of paying for the software a laborious pain in the ass. They are desperately trying to extract money from those who can pay, which sadly drives away those who can pay but don't want an involved process. I have wo
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Those ungodly edge cases are what makes vim usable everywhere, and the default of the defaults on so many systems. That trusty vi command that works a certain way has been dependable since the late 1970s. But, that misses the point of Neov
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
The Neovim development path -- by design -- had no chance of upstream-downstream merges. It is a departure, not a premature mistake, but a decision. The code had to be re-factored to let the community in -- the Vim code is a horrific legac
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Wouldn't people in group A.. die?
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Bram has said very little. He, IMHO, massively underestimates the communities desire to contribute... Neovim simply tapped in to a community desperate to improve a project they love, and finding no good options on howto do so. As for &quot
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
"Done In One Week" Quality, Cost and Scope will be "best effort" Honestly, it might sound silly, but it would be useful. Give a client an idea of what can be done in a week, lets them know what can be off the shelf
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
That article basically agrees with me. Additionally -- notice how it doesn't point to explicit existing examples, but implies "future problems" -- as did the 2006 article. "In the vast majority of cases, cloud data that
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
On a technical level, I can understand your concerns. I am a developer, and it took me some time to get my head around how it works. But, the bottom line is -- it IS that crazy. Discovery isn't what you would think from popular cultu
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Not really, and there is a ton of case law on the topic. The way (civil) discovery works makes the SaaS concern far less of an issue. Civil cases are NOT criminal or national security -- this is not the CIA, it is not a secret court, it is
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Indeed. I suspect companies being started now will opt out of logging more and more. My companies employees work from home the majority of the time. We use Hipchat, Trello, Github, Google Drive, and Email for most of our communications.
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
How would you even double-blind for this? Double blind means neither the participants nor the people running the study knows who is on what. You give half the people Soylent and the other half -- what?
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Naturally, they are returned in a uniform manner. To get any rotation (for edge differentiation) would require the ability to handle the cards (which he did not have) or the ability to convince someone to rotate cards (which is what it is
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Going to do my best to put a quick summary (from memory) on something that took us a long time to get right and was a bit convoluted. Our units actually would report to intermediaries their maximum interaction boundries, which would then be
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Isn't the fundamental point of concurrency the players? Couldn't you have X players moving on a global grid? I have built systems with literally tens of millions of players (Erlang processes) moving on a grid (and doing way more,
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by MetaCosm 12y ago
Theory versus reality. The theory of federated XMPP is exactly as you said. The reality is much more of a mess, with multi-device issues -- routing issues -- federation issues, not to mention a ton of non-XMPP messaging services.

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